Pirate Bay peers hit 22 million mark

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They may riding a storm of controversy, but the swahbucklers behind the notorious P2P website, The Pirate Bay, are celebrating massive growth.

Despite measures by the music and movie industries, and several governments, to shut them down, it seems, as Ars Technica quipped, "pirate pride is alive and well".

The website has announced it managed to hit 22 million peers this week, which is up from 12 million just months ago in April of this year.

Although bloggers are questioning whether you can trust a pirate (re the figures), if they are real, it means that The Pirate Bay has smashed its target of 20 million concurrent peers just 7 months after setting it, and far earlier than expected.

This news follows the announcement in late September that the website had topped three million registered users (just think how many unregistered users that means the site has got).

But there was no addition comment from the team to well wishing journos: "All planned and booked interviews are to be considered suspended", they said in a post this summer. "All future interviews are to be considered impossible."

"We have no longer any interest in participating in traditional media since it's apparent that they are not trustworthy or willing to adopt [sic]. The mail sent to the press spokes person will not be read. The phone will not be answered." So there.